Monday, June 26, 2017

The
FBI launched a criminal probe against former Trump National Security
Adviser Michael Flynn two years after the retired Army general roiled
the bureau’s leadership by intervening on behalf of a decorated
counterterrorism agent who accused now-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe
and other top officials of sexual discrimination, according to
documents and interviews.

Flynn’s
intervention on behalf of Supervisory Special Agent Robyn Gritz was
highly unusual, and included a letter in 2014 on his official Pentagon
stationary, a public interview in 2015 supporting Gritz’s case and an
offer to testify on her behalf. His offer put him as a hostile witness
in a case against McCabe, who was soaring through the bureau’s
leadership ranks.

Socialist theater group has received $461,000 from the NEA

The National Endowment for the Arts is spending $20,000 for a musical
about a lesbian illegal immigrant who is in love with an ICE agent.

The San Francisco Mime Troupe, a self-described socialist theater group, received the funding
in the first round of grants awarded under the Trump administration.
Jane Chu is the current chairman of the NEA, who was appointed by former
president Barack Obama in 2014.

The musical is entitled "WALLS!" and stars a "bad hombre," mocking a
phrase used by Trump to describe criminal illegal aliens during a
presidential debate.

U.S. official: Leaks of classified info by former Obama officials endanger American security operations

A new wave of leaks targeting the Trump administration has actively
endangered ongoing intelligence and military operations being conducted
by the United States and its allies, sparking anger and concern inside
and outside the White House, according to multiple conversations with
senior U.S. officials intimately familiar with the situation.

The classified leaks, which are being handed to sympathetic
journalists by former Obama administration officials who left the
government and by holdovers still serving in the Trump administration,
have damaged a number of ongoing operations, ranging from American
efforts to prevent Russian infiltration of the United States to Israeli
efforts against ISIS, sources said.

Second Amendment advocates stung by the Supreme Court’s decision not
to take up a closely watched gun rights case vowed Monday to pursue
litigation as long as it takes to get the justices to affirm the right
to carry a firearm outside the home.

The court opted Monday not to
hear Peruta v. California, letting stand a ruling from the 9th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals that upheld a California law requiring a gun
owner to show “good cause” in order to get a permit to carry a concealed
handgun in public. The state law left the authority to decide what
constitutes “good cause” up to local authorities such as sheriffs or
police chiefs.

Gun owner Edward Peruta, of San Diego County,
brought the case after he sought to carry concealed firearms for
self-defense but was denied a concealed carry license in 2009 because he
was unable to show good cause.

German-based automaker BMW announced Monday it would invest $600 million in its Spartanburg, S.C., plant between 2018 and 2021.

The announcement comes as the company celebrates 25 years of
operation at the South Carolina location. The attendance of South
Carolina Republican Gov. Henry McMaster and South Carolina Republican
Sen. Lindsey Graham underlined the importance of BMW to the Palmetto state’s economy.

BMW’s Spartanburg plant is its largest in the world, employing more
than 9,000 workers. The new investment will add 1,000 jobs, according to
the company, adding to what is already one of the state’s largest employers.

Robert Mueller is continuing to fill his presidential hunting expedition with liberal lawyers.

On Monday, the National Law Review reported that Elizabeth Prelogar
has joined Mueller's team to investigate Russian influence in the 2016
election. Prelogar is an attorney in the Office of the Solicitor General
who, campaign records show, has given a combined $750 to campaigns or
supporting organizations for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

But Prelogar's
donations pale in comparison to rest of the team Mueller is assembling.
Mueller has only revealed seven of the 13 attorneys, but those named
include four partisan lawyers who have collectively donated nearly
$50,000 to Democratic candidates since 2004, while only giving $2,750 to
Republicans.

Last week, I wrote
that this pattern of partisan political giving by the investigative
team shows the entire inquiry into supposed Russian influence is a
thinly veiled offensive against the Trump presidency.

Whether you believe that Western Civilization is dead, or only in a
state of irreversible entropy, it should be evident that much of our
culture no longer serves the interests of human beings. The major cause,
which may lead to the extinction of our species, is found in our
willingness to identify with abstractions which, by their very nature,
reside beyond ourselves. Whether we find our identities in our race,
gender, age, ideologies and other belief systems, nationality, economic
interests, political parties, social/political causes, or other products
of our thinking, we divide ourselves from one another and generate
conflict. My book, Calculated Chaos: Institutional Threats to Peace and Human Survival, elaborated upon how we create institutions,
through which we organize ourselves based upon our identities. Because
the existence of institutions depends upon these divisions, their
interests require the constant creation of conflicts that are so
destructive to the lives of human beings.

Is it possible for us to learn to live in other ways? We are social
creatures for whom organizing with others is both necessary and
beneficial. But on what basis do we organize? Because of the “division
of labor” principle, Robinson Crusoe and Friday could each live more
productive lives by exchanging their surpluses with one
another, than if each tried to be isolated and “self-sufficient.” Why is
this so? Might there be some underlying factor that facilitates this.

Canada’s military is going all out to erase its reputation for
intolerance and misogyny, aiming to recast itself instead as welcoming
to Canadians of all races, religions and sexual orientations.

The effort — driven by several factors, including a need to bolster
its dwindling numbers — includes a comprehensive effort to connect with
and recruit women, new citizens and even members of the LGBT community.

The Trudeau government’s plan to invest an extra $62 billion in the
military over the next 20 years includes hiring 3,500 more full-time
personnel and 1,500 part-time reservists, numbers that would bring the
ranks of the Forces to their highest level since the end of the Cold
War.

In a recent column for the Associated Press, entitled “Old South
monument backers embrace Confederate Catechism”, writer Jay Reeves
opines that that those of us who seek to remember the Confederacy and
Southern culture are reading from a different history book than the rest
of the “nation”. He acknowledges that “indeed they are”, and then
references the “decades old” Confederate Catechism written by
Lyon G. Tyler, son of former President John Tyler. Reeves is astonished
by the audacity of Southern historians, and Southern people in general,
who would reject “today’s scholarship”.

Mr. Reeves’ writes in a style that is typical of modern era
“journalists”, which is to say there is a lot of finger pointing and
innuendo going on, but very little actual research. He, not so covertly,
calls out the Sons of Confederate Veterans for defending “rebel”
monuments, and chastises the United Daughters of the Confederacy for
having the temerity to enact “programs to educate children on its version of Southern history”. (emphasis added)

What one will find in this article is very little intellectual
content, an elementary level of investigation, and no actual journalism.
It’s a mere opinion piece forwarded by someone who, frankly, does not
possess a very informed opinion on the subject that he chose to tackle.

Earlier this month FOX News legal expert Gregg Jarrett insisted Robert Mueller should disqualify himself from special counsel due to his longtime relationship with James Comey.

Gregg Jarrett said Mueller must recuse himself.

Gregg Jarrett:
If you look at the special counsel statute it says you cannot serve as
special counsel if you have a personal relationship with someone who is
central to the case. If this Washington Post story is true, it’s now
Trump against Comey. Comey is now the star witness, the key witness
against Trump. Well, guess what? Comey and Mueller are longtime close
personal friends, partners, allies.

They were joined at the hip at the
DOJ and FBI. It’s a mentor-protege relationship. How is this fair to
Donald Trump because Mueller is now going to decide whether to believe
his good friend or the man who fired his good friend?

This is the kind of stuff over which lawyers get disbarred. If (he) does not resign then Rod Rosenstein out to (should) fire Mueller.

Remember that time Seattle’s socialist city council member Kshama
Sawant pressed for the city to increase its minimum wage to $15 per
hour? I actually debated Sawant on the issue; I asked her if she would
be in favor of raising the wage to $1,000 per hour. She misdirected from
the issue.

Seattle actually ended up embracing $13 per hour, raising the minimum
wage from $9.47 in 2014 to $11 in 2015 to $13 in 2016 under the theory
that an increase wouldn’t throw people out of work, wouldn’t encourage
part-time hiring, and would inflate salaries enough to allow more
affordability in the Seattle housing market.

A private school for Orthodox Jewish girls aged three to eight faces
closure because pupils are not taught about homosexuality or gender
reassignment.

The Vishnitz Girls School, in north London,
does not give pupils “a full understanding of fundamental British
values” according to a report by

the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Schools (Ofsted).

The report claimed girls “are not taught explicitly about issues such
as sexual orientation. This restricts pupils’ spiritual, moral, social
and cultural development and does not promote equality of opportunity in
ways that take account of differing lifestyles.”

As a result of its defiant stance in refusing to bow to state
pressure, the school failed its Ofsted inspection for the third time
since February 2016.

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday it will hear the case of a
suburban Denver baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay
couple on faith-based grounds, in the latest religious freedom case to
be considered before the nation's highest court.

Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, had
refused to sell a customized cake for a gay couple's union, claiming a
religious exemption to the state's anti-discrimination law.

The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will review lower court
rulings blocking enforcement of President Donald Trump’s executive order
on refugee and migrant entry, and stayed injunctions barring the
order’s enforcement.

The announcement is a major victory for the president, whose signature immigration policy has been stymied repeatedly by the federal courts.

The justices consolidated two travel ban cases from the 4th and 9th
Circuits, and scheduled oral arguments for the first session of the
Court’s next term, which begins in October. They also partially vacated
several lower court injunctions barring enforcement of the order’s
travel ban provision, which prohibits the entry of foreign nationals
from six countries with high instances of terrorism.

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.